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7 Tips For Getting The Most Out Of Your Mortgage
Getting ready to buy your first home? This is an exciting time, but it can also be an overwhelming one. Even though taking out a mortgage on a home is something that you probably...
What Is the Role of a Mortgage Underwriter?
After a mortgage application has left the hands of the processor, it moves to the desk of the underwriter. The underwriter acts as a gatekeeper in the loan approval process. When purchasing a home, the loan cannot close or be funded without the approval of an underwriter.<br>Mortgage loan approval i
How renovation mortgages offer useful options
How renovation mortgages offer useful options to homebuyers and homeowners
4 Important Tips for Realtors: Ensuring a Smooth Mortgage Process
4 Tips to help Realtors prepare buyers/properties for the mortgage process and ensure that all critical information is promptly relayed to the lender.
10 Crucial Questions to Ask Your Commercial Mortgage Broker
Looking to put an apartment building under contract? Be sure to ask these 10 questions BEFORE you apply for a loan to ensure a smooth closing!
How a fixer-upper mortgage can expand your homebuying options
Renovation mortgages let homebuyers get one loan that combines the purchase price with the cost of improvements. But the devil is in the details.
When Should Buyers Lock in a Mortgage Rate?
With mortgage rates on the rise, how do your clients know when it is the right time to lock in a rate? Here are four cases of when they should lock in their rate right away.
What Kinds Of Mortgages Are Available?
Once you have signed a contract for the purchase of your new home (or condominium or cooperative apartment), and assuming you do not have all of the cash in your bank account, you will need to obtain a mortgage loan.
How Construct-to-Perm Mortgages Work
When building a new home from the ground up, there are two primary choices borrowers have. A construction loan and a construct-to-perm loan. Both are...
Why it's important to work with a licensed and bonded mortgage broker
Making the real estate purchase of a lifetime is a big decision. For many individuals and businesses, this means looking for a good mortgage loan deal. Mortgage brokers are an indispensable partner in this process. Today they are the most popular sellers of mortgage products because their role is to be the intermediaries between buyers and lenders.
What is a Home Equity Loan or Second Mortgage
A home equity loan -- also known as a second mortgage -- is when a mortgage lender lets a homeowner borrow money against the equity in his home.
What Is a Home Appraisal and What Do Appraisers Look For?
Applying for a new home mortgage or refinancing your current loan? Learn more about one of the most critical but commonly overlooked steps: the appraisal.
How Dime Does Things Differently: Residential Mortgages
For Dime, it was imperative to find professional, experienced team members who know every part of the lending cycle, inside and out.
How Real-Estate Brokers Can Profit From Racial Tipping Points
A new paper looks at the science of a craven question: When does it make business sense to leverage racial fears?
How Technology Can Give You the Edge in Real Estate & Mortgages
Technology touches every part of our lives, and there is virtually no industry that hasn't been touched by changes in technology the last 20 or 30 yea...
How Much Can You Afford to Spend on a Home?
Deciding how much to spend on a home is a very important life decision. Most people want to do more in life than make a mortgage payment.
How Do Renovation Loans Work
What Are The Mortgage Options For Home Renovation Loans Do you know all the options for home renovation loans? Over the years in my work for a mortgage company, I've been asked about the various options for home renovation mortgages numerous times. Before tackling a significant financial decision, most people would like to have some idea as to how a renovation loan works. Having the right…
What Realtors® need to know: An introduction to the Loan Estimate
The Loan Estimate has been redesigned to disclose of the features, costs & risks of the particular mortgage loan for which a consumer has applied earlier.
The Appraisal Process: What You Should Know
Getting an appraisal is an important part of the mortgage process. Learn more about getting a home appraisal and what to expect if you live in a rural area.
Why New Home Sales Should Matter To You
There are many parts to a healthy housing market. Whether you’re talking about home prices, mortgage rates, new home construction, or another housing metric, each one of them have an effect o…
How to Finance a Manufactured Home
Chattel mortgages, FHA loans and conventional loans are a few options you should consider.
